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France in 16th Century (Relligious Wars)

Contexts:

David Potter, A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State (1995)

Mack P. Holt (ed.), Renaissance and Reformation France, 1500-1648 (2002)

The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 (1995; 2nd edn 2005), chap. 1

Robert J. Knecht, The French Civil Wars, 1562-1598 (2000), chaps. 1-3

The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France, 1483-1610 (1996), esp. chaps. 1 & 17

J.H.M. Salmon, Society in Crisis: France in the Sixteenth Century (1975), part I

Henry Heller, Iron and Blood: Civil Wars in Sixteenth-Century France (1991), chap. 1

F.J. Baumgartner, France in the Sixteenth Century (1995), parts I & II

Janine Garrisson, A History of Sixteenth-Century France, 1483-1598: Renaissance,

Reformation and Rebellion (1995), parts I & II

Arlette Jouanna et al, Histoire et dictionnaire des guerres de religion (1998)

Monarchy:

David Potter, A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State (1995),

Mack P. Holt (ed.), Renaissance and Reformation France, 1500-1648 (2002), chap. 1

J.R. Major, From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles and

Estates (1994), chaps. 1-3

E. Le Roy Ladurie, The French Royal State, 1460-1610 (1993)

R.J. Knecht, The French Wars of Religion, 1559-1598 (2nd edn, 1996), chap. 2

David Parker, The Making of French Absolutism (1983), chap. 1


Richard A. Jackson, Vive le Roi! A History of the French Coronation from Charles V to

Charles X (1984)

Ralph E. Giesey, The Royal Funeral Ceremony in Renaissance France (1960)

Penny Roberts, 'The Kingdom's Two Bodies? Corporeal Rhetoric and Royal

Authority during the Religious Wars', French History, 21 (2007), 147-64

Claude de Seyssel, The Monarchy of France (1515; modern edn, 1981)

Jean Bodin, Six Books of the Commonwealth/Six livres de la République (1576; various

modern edns)

Colette Beaune, Naissance de la nation France(1985)

Historiography:

Mack P. Holt, 'Putting Religion Back into the Wars of Religion', French Historical

Studies, 18 (1993), pp. 524-51 (a review article)

[see also H. Heller, ‘A Reply to Mack P. Holt’, French Historical Studies, 19 (1996)

Nicolette Mout, ‘Reformation, Revolt and Civil Wars: The Historiographic Traditions

of France and the Netherlands’, in P. Benedict et al (eds), Reformation, Revolt and Civil

War in France and the Netherlands, 1555-1585 (1999), pp. 23-34

Mark Greengrass, 'The Psychology of Religious Violence', French History, 5 (1991),

467-74, review of Denis Crouzet, Les Guerriers de Dieu: La violence au temps des troubles

de religion (vers 1525-vers 1610) (2 vols., 1990)

Arlette Jouanna et al, Histoire et dictionnaire des guerres de religion (1998)

Monarchy:

David Potter, A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State (1995),
esp. chaps. 1-3
Mack P. Holt (ed.), Renaissance and Reformation France, 1500-1648 (2002), chap. 1

J.R. Major, From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles and
Estates (1994), chaps. 1-3

E. Le Roy Ladurie, The French Royal State, 1460-1610 (1993)

Colette Beaune, Naissance de la nation France(1985)

Historiography

Mack P. Holt, 'Putting Religion Back into the Wars of Religion', French Historical
Studies, 18 (1993), pp. 524-51

Nicolette Mout, ‘Reformation, Revolt and Civil Wars: The Historiographic Traditions
of France and the Netherlands’, in P. Benedict et al (eds), Reformation, Revolt and Civil
War in France and the Netherlands, 1555-1585 (1999), pp. 23-34

Mark Greengrass, 'The Psychology of Religious Violence', French History, 5 (1991),


467-74, review of Denis Crouzet, Les Guerriers de Dieu: La violence au temps des troubles
de religion (vers 1525-vers 1610) (2 vols., 1990)

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